Robert Plant Quotes

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

Music is what I do naturally.

I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

We pride ourselves on being great songwriters.

If an artiste has the conviction to carry something off, he or she can do anything.

I'd say that comedy is my God-given gift.

I do have certain people whom I want to work with. The kind of people I want to work with won't cast me on the basis of my hotness in the songs.

I think for me to be involved in a festival, there has to be a strong element of songwriting and musicianship.

You just need the ear. But the ear is something, I guess, that you can't buy. And I can't play the piano fluently, but I feel like my ear is my strong point.

I think I'm a good lyricist.

I love singing - singing was basically kind of my passion before ventriloquism.

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!

The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.

My passion is more in songwriting than ... in being a star.

It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.